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Poor kids… with those $1000 passes, and getting bored after the 10th day in-bounds. 😥 It’s just a matter of time before they will figure out how to sell ‘parkour’ (or the next novelty) to them. Then you will have your slopes back. Either that or everyone will buy splitboards. Could go either way. 😕

Something about balancing a single 8-meter radius edge on biolerplate always makes me really wish I had skis or ice tools… 😯

Somebody go practice, and upload a video 😉

I’ve self-belayed with an axe toeside but have never actually used those self-arrest techniques while riding, even though I’ve practiced them in mountaineering scenarios. I usually end up falling back on instincts gained inbounds that involve using the board.

Once I had to figure out how to stop…[Read more]

I claim regional rep for Washington!

Be careful about how tight you go with these. I had them tight enough that it took two hands to engage the toepieces… one of which which ended up breaking off in my hand after a couple months of this abuse. If you like to go insanely tight, you might consider carrying an extra toepiece (some telemark heelpieces will also work in a bind). But…[Read more]

I am too masochistic to use Mac. I just put linux on a new laptop and it was exquisitely painful. Now I can channel this into scorn for all of you ‘users.’ 🙄

@Ecobrad wrote:

@dacksdescents wrote:

and pubishing a new book 😀

Good luck, man. I saw Lou Dawson’s little write-up and the book looks awesome. I wish I had a use for it but I don’t see myself up that way for a long time.

link?

@Jon Dahl wrote:

@snoslut wrote:

Jon if you consider that business as usual, I’d hate to experience what you consider not. 😯 😆

I could tell you about the time on the trail up Shuksan where the bugs were so thick you could kill a hundred at a time if you stopped at all…..

Now THAT shit can make you fCKN crazy, holy shit. Kill and…[Read more]

trying to fall down hill cause it was a lot easier than climbing down

I would like to refer to this as “the zone.”

I expect the two axe thing would be far superior in situations where you end up essentially having to “downclimb” sections :shock:. For self arrest after a fall, I think that having an axe in each hand is a serious liability, but then so is falling…

In an actual fall, self arrest would have to consist of a combination of using your board edges…[Read more]

These pictures are like crack to me 😯

Damn that’s a lot of pics. Your approaches look so charming. 😈

Good for you, drink on mother’s day BAD idea 😳

I’ve skied my splitboard for a long time, eventually hard enough to break the slider track at the pivot hole. That sh*t is HARD, but doable (unless it’s powder). It could certainly get you up over a few crevasses, especially with the aid of skins.

sort-of relevant…[Read more]

That’s pretty sketchy territory, you should at least be able to recognize on your way up that this will be a problem, and plan way in advance. I would do everything I could to plan my line of descent so that I never had to consider taking off my board, but in order of preference:

1) ride a line that lets you ride or jump over the crevasse
2)…[Read more]

Sweet trick, what is that, a head manual?

BCD what boots are you wearing?

Can you make a translator script that does that for all posts on here?

So is this gonna end like one of those old movies where everybody’s about to fight and then they break into some muthaf#$^n gangsta-a$$ song and dance?

Yeah but what about tying knots in the end of your rope, and what knot should you use to join ropes for a double-rope rappel?

😈

While the tone of the thread is going in the right direction, I think we’re going to have use a little more profanity before we can really call ourselves “the Rap Crowd,” mmkay?

While the tone of the thread is going in the right direction, I think we’re going to have use a little more profanity before we can really call ourselves “the rap crowd,” mmkay?